Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. As the winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films as well as on TV. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive area by an actor she was also the first to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.






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